The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal ConductWhy do some individuals pursue crime as a lifestyle? After years of incarceration, why do these offenders habitually repeat criminal behavior? In "The criminal lifestyle", Walters approaches the question of crime by examining how various biologic, sociologic, and psychologic factors interact to bring about criminal behavior. He extends the criminal career concept to include those persons who approach crime, not as an isolated incident, but as a lifelong commitment. Organized in the same manner as the study was conducted, this riveting book reviews and evaluates research, theoretical issues and practical considerations concerning crime, and develops a model of lifestyle criminality.--Jacket |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Criminologic Theory | 31 |
Crime as a Lifestyle | 50 |
Postulates and Key Terms | 70 |
Developmental Issues | 117 |
Assessment and Change | 175 |
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actions adolescents adult antisocial approach arrest career criminal characteristics Charles Manson Cleckley Clinical Psychology cognitive indolence committed Consequently crime criminal act criminal behavior criminal careers criminal conduct criminal development criminal involvement criminal lifestyle criminal offenders criminal science Criminology Criterion cutoff delinquency deviance differential association differential association theory drug early life tasks engage evolving life decision fact goals Hirschi hypothesized individual inmates interaction interpersonally intrusive irresponsibility juvenile labeling labeling theory later life tasks lawbreaking lifestyle criminal lifestyle theory MMPI mollification negative noncriminal one's perspective postulates power orientation pre-criminal primary organizing motive prison psychopathic rational choice theory reinforcing relationship responsibility robbers secondary organizing motives self-image self-indulgence sense serious criminality social control theory social rule breaking society Sociological stimulation strain theory superoptimism Sutherland Ted Bundy theorists theory of criminal theory of lifestyle therapy thought violate Walters & White Willie Sutton Yochelson and Samenow York
References to this book
Armed Robbers In Action: Stickups and Street Culture Richard T. Wright,Scott H. Decker Limited preview - 1997 |
Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Epidemiological Perspective Paul Moran No preview available - 1999 |